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This study aims to examine the characteristics of long-term care (LTC) financing in Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) countries. To this end, the 26 OECD countries that have introduced LTC systems were classified into three typ...

Precipitation and its development over time is an important indicator of climate change. Research on long-term precipitation totals is absent in the Slovak Republic. This paper deals with the statistical analysis of daily precipitation from 48 precip...

Hydrophones used in Passive Acoustic Monitoring generate vast amounts of data, with the storage requirements for raw signals dependent on the sampling frequency, which limits the range of frequencies that can be recorded. Since the installation of th...

At present, there are very few analysis methods for long-term electroencephalogram (EEG) components. Temporal information is always ignored by most of the existing techniques in cognitive studies. Therefore, a new analysis method based on time-varyin...

As past events have shown, disasters can have a tremendous impact on the affected population’s health. However, research regarding the long-term impact on a systems level perspective is still scarce. In this multi-case study, we analyzed and co...

Dementia is a common syndrome in older people. Dementia alters eating behaviors, hunger and thirst cues, swallow function, ability to self-feed, and recognition and interest in food. There is significant variation in the reported prevalence of malnut...

Little is known about the long-term consequences of asymptomatic infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We aimed to review the data available to explore the long-term consequences of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2...

Profound research on the characteristics of the long-term persistence of wind is greatly significant for understanding the characteristics of wind speed mechanisms as well as for avoiding disasters caused by wind. In the current study, we selected th...

Frequent flood disasters have caused serious damage to karst areas with insufficient measured rainfall data, and the analysis of the applicability of satellite rainfall data in runoff simulation is helpful to the local water management. Therefore, th...

The preterm-born adult population is ever increasing following improved survival rates of premature births. We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate long-term effects of preterm birth on renal function in preterm-born survivors. We searched PubMed...

Background. Long-term outcomes of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) who received either a mechanical (MP) or biological prosthesis (BP) are conflicting. A meta-analysis of observational studies comparing the long-term outcomes of left-side IE...

The technical and economic aspects and the possibility of the mesh network topology offering many radial configurations lead to the fact that large municipal networks are generally under radial operation. However, it is very important to analyze the...

This study was aimed at exploring different indices to quantify flow fluctuations and calculate long-term flow indicators (L-FFI). Three approaches were considered to calculate the indicators: Method (1)—calculate the annual index and then aver...

Background and Objectives: Early orthodontic intervention during the mixed dentition phase is commonly used to intercept developing malocclusions and potentially reduce the need for more complex treatment later. However, there is limited and conflict...

Background: Our aim was to determine the impact that metabolic syndrome (MS) produces in long-term heart rate variability (HRV), quantitatively synthesizing the results of published studies to characterize the cardiac autonomic dysfunction in MS. Met...

Background: Although the initial functional outcome findings of the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) study favored coiling at one year after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), concerns arose regarding limited long-term reruptu...

Wildfire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes are becoming increasingly unpredictable, driven by the combined effects of climate change, land-use transitions, and socio-economic pressures. Traditional metrics such as burned area or ignition points oft...

In this study, the authors implemented an intelligent long-term care system based on deep learning techniques, using an AI model that can be integrated with the Lab’s Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) application for senti...

Numerical modeling approaches are favored for performing long-term analyses of continuous prestressed concrete rigid-frame (CPCR) bridges due to the complexity and high cost of experimental testing on such structures. In this study, a refined numeric...

Long-term heart rate variability (HRV) analysis is useful as a noninvasive technique for autonomic nervous system activity assessment. It provides a method for assessing many physiological and pathological factors that modulate the normal heartbeat....

Background: As the first approved GnRH agonist, leuprorelin is distinguished by its broad application in managing central precocious puberty (CPP). Despite the extensive use of leuprorelin in CPP management, uncertainties still persist regarding its...

This paper presents a general procedure for a rate-type creep analysis (based on the use of the continuous retardation spectrum) which avoids the need of recalculating the Kelvin chain stiffness elements at each time step. In this procedure are incor...

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the prevalence of violence perpetrated by healthcare workers (HCWs) against patients in long-term care (LTC). For this purpose, five relevant databases were searched. Two reviewers extracted...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia often treated concomitantly with other cardiac interventions through the Cox–Maze procedure. This highly invasive intervention is still linked to a long-term recurrence rate of approxim...

A weather forecast is a result of applying science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere in a selected location and time in the future. The main input is a collection of data (atmospheric, land, and ocean), and the resulting outp...

The relationship between the impacts of coastal perimeter transformations derived from human activity and coastal vulnerability is not easy to assess. The impacts associated with coastal dynamics are phenomena that usually develop very extensively ov...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the aortic diameter and volume during the first year after a type A repair to predict the long-term prognosis of a residual aortic dissection (RAD). Methods: All patients treated in our center for an...

Air quality is an essential factor for human health and ecosystem balance, but in regions like Petroșani Mountain Depression, air pollution continues to be a significant challenge. This area, marked by decades of coal mining, is confronted with...

Natural stone-paved roads have been generally used to preserve historical regions due to its architectural aesthetic aspect and environmental impact. However, there are limitations of travelling speed and traffic volume owing to the defects caused by...

This study aims to measure the impact of bedroom privacy on residents’ social networks in a long-term care (LTC) facility for older adults. Little is known about how the architectural design of bedrooms affects residents’ social networks...

Introduction: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are one of the most prescribed classes of drugs worldwide as a first-line treatment of acid-related disorders. Although adverse effects are rare and rapidly reversible after a short exposure, concerns have...

We aimed to review the data available to evaluate the long-term consequences of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at 6 months and above. We searched relevant observational cohort studies up to 9 February 2022 in Pubmed, Embase, and Web of Science....

A database of 195 field records of long-term settlement of high-rise buildings in Shanghai soft coastal clays is presented. The collected field records are divided into two categories based on pile type, i.e., bored pile and precast pile. Based on th...

This study investigates the process of long-term (bio)degradation of polyethylene (PE) in an old municipal waste landfill (MWL) and its implications for environmental and human health. Advanced techniques, such as ICP–ES/MS and IC–LC, wer...

Existing research recognizes the COVID-19 impact on waste generation. However, the preliminary studies were made at an early pandemic stage, focused on the household waste fraction, and employed descriptive statistics that lacked statistical support....

Buildings aged 20 years or older account for 63.34% of all edifices in Korea. To ensure sustainable construction, apartment managers must plan and allocate financial resources to maintain communal facilities. However, on the one hand, long-term repai...

Wind energy is widely considered a clean and renewable resource, yet the environmental impacts of wind farm (WFs) installations, particularly on local climate and ecosystems, remain underexplored on a large scale. This study presents a comprehensive...

Addressing the stock market forecasting as a classification problem, where the model predicts the direction of stock price movement, is crucial for both traders and investors, as it can help them to allocate limited resources to the most promising in...

Taiwan’s rapid demographic shift toward a super-aged society has heightened demand for long-term care, yet limited staffing creates safety risks from fires; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning failures; and health incidents. To address t...

In this study, the energy consumption and generation characteristics, the operation status of a photovoltaic (PV) system, and the energy balance of a net-zero energy building (nZEB) in South Korea were analyzed based on the data collected over a 10-y...

The assessment of ecological space quality (ESQ) and its spatio-temporal change monitoring are crucial for regional ecological management and sustainable development. However, there are few studies on how to construct a comprehensive ESQ assessment s...

Climate change includes the change of the long-term average values and the change of the tails of probability density functions, where the extreme events are located. However, obtaining average values are more straightforward than the high temporal r...

The COVID-19 pandemic affected access to care, and the associated public health measures influenced the transmission of other infectious diseases. The pandemic has dramatically changed antibiotic prescribing in the community. We aimed to determine th...

Sentiment analysis aims to study, analyse and identify the sentiment polarity contained in subjective documents. In the realm of natural language processing (NLP), the study of sentiment analysis and its subtask research is a hot topic, which has ver...

Ilam province is located in the southwest of Iran, and the primary motivation for this research is to study different dimensions of rainfall fluctuations in the Ilam province. This study is of great importance for the management of the environment in...

The relationship between nurse staffing, physical outcomes of residents, as well as quality of care receives major attention. The impact of staffing levels on residents’ ability to organize their everyday life and maintain social contacts, however, h...

Combining global experience, comprehensive aging knowledge, and predictive methodologies provides ideal prerequisites for the long-term operation strategy (LTO) of a nuclear power plant (NPP). Applying management strategies with an understanding of t...

In the manufacturing industry, the process capability index (Cpk) measures the level and capability required to improve the processes. However, the Cpk is not enough to represent the process capability and performance of the manufacturing processes....

Analytic models, complex simulations, and simple models are being used to predict the production performance of hydraulically fractured shale. Analytical models such as decline curve analysis and rate transient analysis are used for a quick evaluatio...

This research empirically investigates how the adoption of restricted stock units (RSUs) affects earnings per share (EPS) and operating profit, focusing on variations across industries. RSUs have emerged as a strategic compensation tool for promoting...